#hunter jonakin

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Hunter Jonakin Paper-Thin v.1 www.paper-thin.org

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Paper-Thin Volume 1 is Complete... Working on Volume 2 now

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As part of the exhibition Fire and Forget: On Violence, at Berlin's KW Institute until 30 August, artist Hunter Jonakin is showing his 2011 video game titled Jeff Koons Must Die!!!, which anyone can play by inserting 25 cents in the fabricated 1980s style stand-up arcade game. Using a first person perspective, the game is set in a large museum during a Jeff Koons retrospective, where the player is invited to destroy all the art with a rocket launcher. If successful the player will then have to deal with Jeff Koons himself, who also sends out guards in retaliation, followed by overwhelming waves of curators, lawyers and assistants, until the player is also annihilated.

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Hunter Jonakin 

Low Res Pixel Bed

"This piece exists in the analog world but references and mimics digital data in order to create a visual feedback loop with the intent of highlighting and alluding to this ever-increasingly digitally saturated world."

http://hunterjonakin.com/pixel.php

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Vinjon Global Corp: Quietly Taking Over the World

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Jeff Koons Must Die!!!, by Hunter Jonakin

Jeff Koons Must Die!!! is made up of a fabricated 80’s style stand-up arcade cabinet, and a simulated digital environment presented in a first-person perspective. Viewers must pay twenty-five cents to play the game and the virtual environment is traversed with a joystick and two arcade buttons. The premise of the video game is to allow the viewer to virtually destroy work by the artist, Jeff Koons.

The game is set in a large museum during a Jeff Koons retrospective. The viewer is given a rocket launcher and the choice to destroy any of the work displayed in the gallery. If nothing is destroyed the player is allowed to look around for a couple of minutes and then the game ends. However, if one or more pieces are destroyed, an animated model of Jeff Koons walks out and chastises the viewer for annihilating his art. He then sends guards to kill the player. If the player survives this round then he or she is afforded the ability to enter a room where waves of curators, lawyers, assistants, and guards spawn until the player is dead. In the end, the game is unwinnable, and acts as a comment on the fine art studio system, museum culture, art and commerce, hierarchical power structures, and the destructive tendencies of gallery goers, to name a few.

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Hunter Jonakin - Jeff Koons Must Die (2011)

For his MFA thesis show from Florida State University

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Jeff Koons Must Die!!! / 2011 Hunter Jonakin

Jeff Koons Must Die!!! is made up of a fabricated 80’s style stand-up arcade cabinet, and a simulated digital environment presented in a first-person perspective. Viewers must pay twenty-five cents to play the game and the virtual environment is traversed with a joystick and two arcade buttons. The premise of the video game is to allow the viewer to virtually destroy work by the artist, Jeff Koons.